In 1880 the Belgian cage, a device that was intended to restrain the severely mad, was demonstrated at a national exhibition in Brussels (Noll, 2007). It consisted of a cage standing on short posts. A picture of the device is included in Letchworth (1889).
References:
Letchworth, W.P. (1889). The insane in foreign countries. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Noll, R. (2007). The encyclopedia of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. (3rd edition). New York, NY: Facts on File Inc.
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